Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur who believes deeply in elevating human stories that challenge existing systems and create more space for inquiry, empathy, and action.

She is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway and a partner at Soto Productions, overseeing all theatrical development. Broadway producing credits: Suffs (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nom); Special Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Alex Edelman’s Just for Us (also on HBOMax); Parade (Tony Award); Prima Facie; and What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nom, Pulitzer Prize finalist). Select Off-Broadway credits: The Woodsman (Obie Award), The Appointment.

A former WP Theater Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel received the 2018 Prince Fellowship in Creative Producing and was named one of Variety’s “2023 10 to Watch on Broadway.” She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Proud NYU Tisch grad.

I’m eager to be on a retreat with my colleagues and take in the lush, rural landscape as we plan the growth of our educational initiative, The Business of Broadway.